Rodney Cohen is the Head of Private Equity at Black Diamond Capital Management, L.L.C. (“Black Diamond”), a leading alternative asset management firm with over $9 billion in assets under management. Mr. Cohen is based in New York.
Prior to Black Diamond, Mr. Cohen was the Managing Director and Co-Head of the Carlyle Equity Opportunity Fund at The Carlyle Group. Before joining Carlyle in 2010, Mr. Cohen was Co-Managing Partner with Pegasus Capital Advisors.
In his two decades of private equity investing, operational restructuring and legal advisory work, Mr. Cohen has invested in a variety of sectors including commodities, natural resources, media, consumer, financial services, security and industrials.
Mr. Cohen joined Pegasus in 1996. From 1993 to 1996, he consulted and managed several diverse business ventures. Prior to that Mr. Cohen practiced law with Anderson Kill Olick and Oshinsky P.C.
Mr. Cohen earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and his B.A. from Franklin and Marshall College.
He serves as the Chair of the Investment Committee and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Randall’s Island Park Alliance, a director of FLEOA – Federal Law Enforcement Officers Foundation, on the Franklin and Marshall Leadership Council and as a board member of the After School All Stars.